Feeder for corn-husking machines



(No Model.)

J. BAUER, Jr.

l 4 FEEDER POR CORN HUSKING MACHINES. No. 571,148. Patented NOV. 10,1896.

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JOSEPH BAUER, JR., OF LE ROY, VISOONSIN.

FEEDER FOR CORN-HUSKING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 571,148, dated November10, 1896.

of corn-husking machinery and to decrease.

the danger to life and limb by providing an automatic feeder of novelconstruction to move the cornstalks to the husking mechanism.

For a full understanding of the merits and advantages of the inventionreference is to be had to the accompanying drawings and the followingdescription.

The improvement is susceptible of various changes in the form,proportion, and the minor details of construction without departing fromthe principle or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof, and to afull disclosure of the invention an adaptation thereof is shown in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of afeeder embodying the principles of this invention. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the same,having a portion of the endless carriers or belts broken away.

Corresponding and like parts are indicated in the several views of theaccompanying drawings and referred to in the following description bythe same reference-characters.

The frame of the feeder comprises side pieces 1 and a board 2,connecting the side pieces at a point about intermediate of their topand bottomedges. Rollers 3 and 4 are journaled in the side pieces of theframe and are located at the opposite ends of the board 2, and havetheir top sides about flush with the upper surface of the board. Theserollers may be of wood, metal, or other material, and one is positivelyrotated, so as to impart motion to the endless carriers or belts 5, and,as shown, a sprocket-Wheel G is secured to a journal of the rear roller4 and is driven in any convenient manner. The endless carriers or belts5 are about four to iive inches wide and are supported upon the rollers3 and 4, and may be of leather, canvas, metal, or

v other material generally employed inthe con- Serial No. 590,318. (Nomodel.)

struction of devices of this character. Projections 7 are secured to theouter side of the endless carriers or belts and may be blocks of wood,strips of metal, or other means to engage positively with thecornstalks, so as to insure a feed of the latter to the huskingmechanism.

A series of bars S, disposed in parallel relation and united at one end,have connection with a transverse lever 9, which is fulcrumed at one endto a side of the frame and has its connected by means of a pitman 11with a wrist-pin 12, applied to the sprocket-wheel 6. By this means thetransverse lever is oscillated, and by reason of its connection with theseries of bars 8 the latter have areciproeating motion impartedthereto.v These bars and project in the rear of the roller 4, and aredisposed opposite the spaces between the edges of adjacent carriers orbelts 5. Slots or kerfs 13 are formed in the rear end portion of theboard 2 for the notched or toothed bars -8 to reciprocate in and directthem in their movements and maintain them at iiXed distances apart.

A transverse bar 14 serves to strengthen the frame and at the same timesupport the toothed bars S, and a companion bar 15, near the front endof the frame, gives additional strength to the latter. An offset 1G isformed in each toothed bar S, thereby admitting of the end portionscoming in different relative planes, so that the inner or front endportion may come beneath the board 2 and the outer or rear portion mayoccupy a position corresponding to a prolongation of the board 2. Therear roller 4 has a series of grooves 17, corresponding to the positionof the toothed bars S, so as to receive the latter, whereby the toothedor active edges of the bars 8 may come below the upper surface of theendless carriers or belts. The toothed or projecting portions of thebars S are slightly curved, and this form is preferred, since betterresults follow.

The transverse lever 9 has adjustable connection with the frame, and itspivotal end is movable in a slot 18, having upper and lower cleats 19,which are formed in their length with a series of openings, the openingsopposite end working through a slot 10 and are notched or toothed attheir upper edges IOO.'

in the cleats being in vertical alinement and receiving the pivot bymeans of which connection is had between the lever and frame. Thisarrangement provides for regulating the reciprocating movement of thetoothed or notched bars 8. A plate 2O extends over the toothed portionof the bars S and the rear ends of the endless carriers or belts andcurves rearwardly and downwardly and is flaring at its front end, so asto receive the cornstalks, the latter being compressed as they areforced beneath the plate 20 toward the husking mechanism.

The cornstalks are spread upon the front portion of the endless carriersor belts and are advanced rearwardly thereby. The ears of corn dropbetween the projecting portions of the toothed bars S and are acted uponby the husking mechanism, Whereas the stalks are supported by thetoothed bars and fed by the latter.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. In afeeder of the character set forth, the combination of a cooperatingseries of endless carriers or belts spaced apart, a supporting-rollerfor an end of the carriers having a series of annular groovescorresponding in position to the spaces between the carriers, andreciprocating toothed or notched bars operating in the spaces formedbetween the carriers and entering the annular grooves, substantially asshown for the purpose described.

2. In a feeder for the purpose set forth, the combination of acooperating series of endless carriers or belts spaced apart, asupporting-roller for one end of the carriers having a series of annulargrooves corresponding in position to the spaces between the carriers,and a series of reciprocating bars located in the space formed betweenthe upper and lower portions of the carriers and having their rear endsextending beyond the rear end of the carriers and operating in theannular grooves of the rear roller, substantially as shown for thepurpose described.

In a feeder of the character set forth, the combination of a boardhaving slots or kerfs in its rear portion, rollers at the ends of theboard, the rear roller having annular grooves corresponding in positionwith the kerfs in the board, endless carriers supported upon the rollersand spaced apart corresponding to the said kerfs and annular grooves,and reciprocating bars operating in the kerfs of the board, the annulargrooves of the rear roller, and in the spaces formed between the endlesscarriers, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. g

4. In a feeder of the character described, the combination of a boardhaving a series of slots or kerfs in its rear portion, rollers at theends of the board, the rear roller having annular grooves correspondingin position with the kerfs in the board, and reciprocating bars havingtheir inner or front ends located below the said board and having theirrear ends in the plane of the said board and operating in the kerfsthereof and in the annular grooves of the rear roller, and having theirrear ends toothed and extending beyond the rear roller, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

5. A feeder of the character described, comprising side pieces, a boardintermediate of the side pieces and having its rear portion formed withkerfs or slots, rollers at the ends of the board and journaled in thesaid side pieces, the rear roller having annular grooves correspondingin position to the kerfs, a series of endless carriers supported uponthe rollers and spaced apart, toothed bars having their inner or frontends brought to-A.

gether and located below the board, and having their rear ends locatedin the plane of the said board and operating in the kerfs and theannular grooves of the rear roller and projecting beyond the latter, theprojecting ends being toothed, a transverse lever having adjustableconnection with a side of the feeder and having the inner ends of thereciprocating bars connected therewith, means for vibrating the saidlever, and a plate located above the rear portion of the carriers andreciprocating bars and curving rearwardly and downwardly, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH BAUER, JR. lVitnesses:

WILLIAM BUTTER, C. W. LAMOREUX.

